May 10, or Cayman Islands
Zodiac Sign Taurus
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Taurus, May 10. People born on on this day are capable of achieving the highest results in their activities, but, as a rule, they prefer to work solo rather than as team players.
If they find themselves in the role of a teacher (in the broad sense of the word), then they try to teach by example, and by their own example, although it is sometimes difficult for students to follow it.
The bright individuality of those born on May 10 is due not only to their original ideas and thoughts, but also to the way they convey them to others.
Very often, those born on May 10 cause antagonism from influential personalities. As a rule, this occurs during the formation of their career.
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Taurus men born on May 10:
- differ in the following characteristics:
- stability,
- gallantry,
- realism.
- Taurus are not idealistic, preferring to analyze and choose a woman who is comfortable for themselves for life.
- They prefer an equal relationship, and once married, they rarely get divorced.
Taurus women born on May 10:
- characterized by such properties:
- loyalty,
- tenderness,
- and decisiveness.
- Taurus is one of the most beautiful women in the zodiacal constellation, characterized by powerful sexual energy and a desire to be the center of attention.
- Often they become the soul of the company, while not claiming to be unconditional leadership.
Main event
Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands
May 10, 1503
Cayman Islands - the possession of Great Britain in the West Indies, which includes the islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. They are located in the north-western part of the Caribbean Sea, between Cuba and Jamaica.
The Cayman Islands were discovered on May 10, 1503 by Christopher Columbus, the famous Spanish navigator and cartographer, on his fourth and last expedition to the New World.
The name of the original inhabitants of these places was not preserved, and Columbus became the first European to see the shores of these low-lying islands. Originally, the Spaniards called them "Las Tortugas", which means "Tortoise Islands", because of the abundance of these reptiles on the islands themselves and in the surrounding waters, but later it turned out that the crocodiles there are much more and the islands were renamed.
Since 1523, the islands were applied to nautical maps called "Lagartos", which means "alligators" or "big lizards". The name "Cayman Islands" was used since 1530. According to one version, it appeared when European travelers, seeing large iguanas there, took them for crocodile caimans. Since then, the name of the Cayman Islands has taken root and so has remained in the cartography.
The first Englishman to land on the islands was Francis Drake, in 1586. During the following century, the islands served as an important intermediate point for ships sailing in the Caribbean to replenish supplies of provisions and fresh water. There was no permanent population, and seamen, pirates and hunters on turtles stayed here for a while.
In 1670, according to the Madrid Treaty, control over the islands was formally transferred to Britain, which ruled them through the governor in Jamaica. Gradually, a large population began to appear on the Grand Cayman, but the remaining islands remained "uninhabited" for a long time.
By the beginning of the 19th century, the population barely held up to a thousand, and half of the inhabitants were slaves. After the abolition of slavery in 1835, many freed slaves remained on the islands, and by the beginning of the 20th century the population had increased five-fold. Local people grew cotton, mahogany, weaved ropes and engaged in fishing. Almost all the products were exported to Jamaica. Repeated attempts were made to modernize the country's economy, but the islanders were not in a hurry to get rid of their isolation.
After the acquisition of independence by Jamaica in 1962, the inhabitants of the Cayman Islands expressed their desire to remain under the tutelage of Great Britain. It was from this time began the rapid development of the offshore sector. Grand Cayman became the center of banking and one of the capitals of Caribbean tourism.
Today the Cayman Islands is a thriving offshore financial center, and the core of the island's economy is the tourism business. Every year more than 2 million tourists visit the island. The islands are famous for the modern tourist infrastructure, beautiful white sand beaches and ideal conditions for underwater hunting, diving, yachting and surfing.
1497 - Amerigo Vespucci's second voyage to the New World begins.
1811 - Paper money is introduced in England.
1850 - Sir Thomas Johnston Lipton was born. English lord, yachtsman (took part in races on single yachts for the America's Cup in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1920 and 1930). We are known him as a tea - he, in fact, founded the company "Lipton".
1864 - Leon Gomon was born, founder of the French film company ''Gaumont'' - the world's first film studio.
1913 - the first flight of the S-9 ("Big Baltic" or "Grand") by designer Igor Sikorsky.
1933 - 20 thousand books of “non-Aryan spirit” —Heine, Remark, Hemingway, Feuchtwanger — were burned on the Opera square in Berlin by the Nazis ...
1933 - American tycoon Nelson Rockefeller fired Mexican artist Diego Rivera, who was invited to create a mural of the new RCA company building. The cause of the conflict was the artist’s refusal to remove a portrait of Lenin from the wall.
1940 - George VI officially, due to extraordinary circumstances, appointed Churchill Prime Minister.
1941 - for the first time, the 1000 km / h milestone was crossed on the Messerschmitt jet fighter. The exact speed of the aircraft was 1003.9 km / h. The record lasted until 1947.
1946 - the beginning of research of the upper atmosphere with the help of captured A-4 (V-2) missiles in the US.
1960 - Bono Vaux (real name Paul Hewison), the leader of the British group U2, was born.
1960 - American nuclear submarine "Triton" completed the first submarine voyage around the world.
1965 - Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel was born.
2001 - The diary of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was sold at a Christie auction in New York for $ 171,000. The name of the buyer is not disclosed, it is only known that this is a private person. The diary, signed by Y. Gagarin on April 15, 1961, contains a record of his radio communications with the Mission Control Center during a historic flight. However, according to the widow of cosmonaut Valentina Gagarina, this may at best be a copy of the document, since the original is kept in Moscow in the archive, access to which is available only to a narrow circle of people.
2003 - at the press conference in Brussels, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Paul Nilsson said that the US wants to "assign" Iraqi oil.
2005 - attempted terrorist attack on Freedom Square in Tbilisi. Georgian citizen Vladimir Harutyunyan threw a grenade in the direction of the podium, on which were George Bush and Mikhail Saakashvili. The grenade did not explode.
2008 - Europe's largest volcano, Etna, became active. The last major eruption was in 2001, as well as in November 2007.
Also on May 10...
1811 - Paper money is introduced in England.
1844 - The capital of Canada moved from Kingston to Montreal.
1864 - Leon Gomon was born, founder of the French film company ''Gaumont'' - the world's first film studio.
1913 - the first flight of the S-9 ("Big Baltic" or "Grand") by designer Igor Sikorsky.
1933 - 20 thousand books of “non-Aryan spirit” —Heine, Remark, Hemingway, Feuchtwanger — were burned on the Opera square in Berlin by the Nazis ...
1933 - American tycoon Nelson Rockefeller fired Mexican artist Diego Rivera, who was invited to create a mural of the new RCA company building. The cause of the conflict was the artist’s refusal to remove a portrait of Lenin from the wall.
1940 - George VI officially, due to extraordinary circumstances, appointed Churchill Prime Minister.
1941 - for the first time, the 1000 km / h milestone was crossed on the Messerschmitt jet fighter. The exact speed of the aircraft was 1003.9 km / h. The record lasted until 1947.
1946 - the beginning of research of the upper atmosphere with the help of captured A-4 (V-2) missiles in the US.
1960 - American nuclear submarine "Triton" completed the first submarine voyage around the world.
1965 - Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel was born.
2001 - The diary of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was sold at a Christie auction in New York for $ 171,000. The name of the buyer is not disclosed, it is only known that this is a private person. The diary, signed by Y. Gagarin on April 15, 1961, contains a record of his radio communications with the Mission Control Center during a historic flight. However, according to the widow of cosmonaut Valentina Gagarina, this may at best be a copy of the document, since the original is kept in Moscow in the archive, access to which is available only to a narrow circle of people.
2003 - at the press conference in Brussels, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Paul Nilsson said that the US wants to "assign" Iraqi oil.
2005 - attempted terrorist attack on Freedom Square in Tbilisi. Georgian citizen Vladimir Harutyunyan threw a grenade in the direction of the podium, on which were George Bush and Mikhail Saakashvili. The grenade did not explode.
2008 - Europe's largest volcano, Etna, became active. The last major eruption was in 2001, as well as in November 2007.
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